Art by Scrii

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Zhi was raised in a family of super proud werewolves, who thought the wolf form was superior to all other forms. They believed the best werewolf was one who could maintain their wolf form indefinitely. They lived off the land in the mountains and hated humans.
Zhi didn't agree. He stumbled upon some humans camping in his family's territory and became fascinated with their culture. Following them back to the city, he succumbed to wanderlust. He wanted to learn everything about humans, cities, modern civilization.
Unfortunately, due to his upbringing, keeping a human form was proving troublesome for him, and he couldn't maintain gainful employment. Living on the streets, he snuck into college classes and kept learning.

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“Really? Humans do that too?” Kids pretended to be animals on the regular? His siblings had pretended to be prey and hunt and such. He had no idea humans would do the same thing with other animals. He got all excited, perking up. “Why?” He was so interested, leaning in. He wanted to question her on all the exciting new things he could learn about normal things humans did.
It was something he could cling to.
Oh, Humans pretend to be animals- I pretended to be different animals! Hey I'm kinda human! his subconscious grabbed for. Maybe. Which didn't even make that much sense since he was kind of already part human anyway. That's what werewolves were, right? Or were they just wolves that looked like humans? That was something he'd never pondered until that precise moment, his mind working overdrive and going a thousand different directions at the possibilities. He wondered if there was a way to be fully human, then. Or would he even want to be?
Oh. Oh now his thoughts just went to a dark place. Was he willing to completely dispel his wolf?
And then he remembered where he was.
Who he was talking to.
His eyes went wide.
She was already talking again.

Maybe she'd missed it? Maybe “Humans do that too?” wasn't a completely ridiculous thing to say as a human. Because. Ha! Humans! Silly creatures. “I'm totally a human!”
No. No don't bring attention to it, he told himself. Maybe she won't notice. Maybe she didn't hear. Just continue as if I never said that. Play it cool.

“Oh.. No… Yeah, I totally feel you! I felt the same way. I couldn't wait to get away from my family, either. And woods and stuff are nice, definitely. But I basically lived in them so I really prefer the city at this point. You know, for the change of pace. But. Yeah. Having the option of going into the forest is nice. So it's good that it's there. Oh, look, there's our pizza.”
His mouth kept running.
Play it cool…

The waitress walked by with the pizza. Walked straight on by to another table.
Crap .

“Guess not,” he said, laughing nervously and running a hand through his hair.

“I just realized, I have to go, do a thing.. I mean, the bathroom, I have to go to the bathroom. You've been here before, right? Where is it?” he began to make his way out of the booth.
Oh god kill me.

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